Which to use
“concurrent” and “concurrents” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,625
- “concurrent” frequency rank
- #6,279
- “concurrents” frequency rank
- 15904
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | concurrent | concurrents |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui se rencontre avec. | Masculin pluriel de concurrent. |
Same sound, different letters: concurrent vs concurrents
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - concurrent and concurrents
This is the hard kind. concurrent and concurrents are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.ky.ʁɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “concurrent” sits inside “concurrents”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15904, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
concurrent is recorded at frequency rank #9,625, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.ky.ʁɑ̃\. concurrents is at rank #6,279, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.ky.ʁɑ̃\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 15904, this pair ranks #390,318 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of concurrent vs concurrents
Shared letters: cenortu. Private to "concurrent": -. Private to "concurrents": s.
"concurrent" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC · "concurrents" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- concurrent ← cconcurrent · cnocurrent · cocnurrent · conccurrent · concrurent · concurent · concurernt · concurrennt
- concurrents ← cconcurrents · cnocurrents · cocnurrents · conccurrents · concrurents · concurents · concurernts · concurrennts
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "concurrent" and "concurrents" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "concurrent" vs "concurrents" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "concurrent" / "concurrents". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "concurrent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "concurrents" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #390,318 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "concurrent" and "concurrents" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "concurrent vs connurent". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #390,318 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.